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Knowledge Base: Angel funding insights with Bridget Unsworth, Angel Association New Zealand

NZ Entrepreneur

Watch now: (20 mins) In this edition of Knowledge Base, Richard Liew talks with Bridget Unsworth, Executive Director of Angel Association New Zealand (AANZ). What is the difference between angel investment and venture capital? How can New Zealand founders find and engage with potential angel investors?

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Portfolio Management – Learning from experienced investors

NZ Entrepreneur

The Angel Association of New Zealand ( AANZ ) is co-hosting with New Zealand Growth Capital Partners ( NZGCP ) a series of workshops on early-stage investment. Jason Graham from Movac provided an early-stage venture capital fund perspective, detailing 35 investments made across 5 funds and 22 years.

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When Does a Private-to-Private Merger Make Sense?

Both Sides of the Table

She created the company in New Zealand and without raising any institutional capital had grown a global business. The fact that Seedling had never raised venture capital made the deal 10x easier and the fact that they were going to be raising money on their own meant that the VCs had an important role to play.

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What Tech Entrepreneurs Could Learn from Chamillionaire

Both Sides of the Table

He got people to do bootlegged mixtapes in new york, france and new zealand. Tags: Startup Advice This Week in Venture Capital. He spoke about his Grammy-winning song Ridin’ (as in Ridin’ Dirty) and how the labels wanted to extend life of song by getting somebody famous to remix the song.

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Hey, founders between gigs: What now?

David Teten

You can sit out the pandemic in New Zealand, or if you want to build another company, just self-fund. If you want outside capital, VCs will gladly take a meeting. We have added a large new section to the Versatile VC website with a suite of resources for founders researching their next move. Consulting.

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Is gust.com a difficult platform to replicate?

Gust

As we end 2012, Gust is the official, exclusive platform of virtually every national federation of business angels in the world including the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Scotland, France, Portugal, Spain, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, India, even China, all in their native languages.

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What Government funding is available for startups in NZ?

NZ Entrepreneur

One of the questions we’re often asked is, “What Government funding is available for startups in New Zealand?” The New Zealand Government wishes to stimulate the creation of more high growth businesses and build on our intellectual property (“IP”) in science and technology related businesses.